Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands of a less skillful writer, this complicated premise might have come off as writing-seminar pretense. But Peck has the talent and energy to flesh out his idea beautifully. Martin and John displays a keen eye for details and striking imagery: a drunken mother ensconced in a dark room "looked like an ice cube in rum;" on the open prairie "the sky gap(es) like an open mouth." Peck's language renders, "My face felt swollen and shapeless, like a moldy orange, as though grief had been shoved into my mouth like a handful of seeds, but I didn...
WASHINGTON--Bill Clinton, who displayed a keen instinct for symbolism in his run for the presidency, showed yesterday that he would package himself no less aggressively now that he has captured the White House...
...balancing their man's time between jogsdown Pennsylvania Avenue and black tie affairswith fat cat democrats, Clinton's team is showingoff triumphantly the keen instincts which won theelection...
...more receptivity to it, and it might be something we can look at in the context of an overall program that seemed fair to people. But you've got to understand what most voters brought to this election, at least most people who voted for me. They brought a keen awareness that while most of them were worse off than they were 10 years ago, there had been a big divergence in income in America. Inequality had got worse, and all the tax breaks had gone to the people who were doing better anyway. This is a much more unequal...
...knows, but the thinking in Washington and Western Europe seems to be "Let's find out." It is getting very, very late for intervention there. Sarajevo's 400,000 residents are reaching the end of their food supplies, since relief flights were suspended on Dec. 1. But few are keen to accept the offer of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to guarantee safe passage to all civilians leaving the city -- an all too facile and cynical turnabout after eight brutal months of Serb barrage...